Brain in sentence

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And at that point, actually, a firework went off in my brain.

We use our bodies to think; we don't just think with our brains and use our bodies to move, but our bodies feed back into our brain to generate the way that we behave.

For one half of the people, I put in a brain that's kind of the traditional, calculated robotic brain.

Let's call it the calculated brain.

The other got more the stage actor, risk-taker brain.

Let's call it the adventurous brain.

They even called it "he" and "she," whereas people with the calculated brain called it "it," and nobody ever called it "he" or "she."

When they talked about it after the task, with the adventurous brain, they said, "By the end, we were good friends and high-fived mentally."

Whereas the people with the calculated brain said it was just like a lazy apprentice.

The brain was thought to be more or less fixed.

A violinist, as we heard, who has done 10,000 hours of violin practice, some area that controls the movements of fingers in the brain changes a lot, increasing reinforcement of the synaptic connections.

But even though we know that these differences occur, 66 percent of the brain research that begins in animals is done in either male animals or animals in whom the sex is not identified.

With a brain the size of a peanut, they maintain individualized, long-term social bonds, We didn't know that was possible.

To understand PTSD, we first need to understand how the brain processes a wide range of ordeals, including the death of a loved one, domestic violence, injury or illness, abuse, rape, war, car accidents, and natural disasters.

We don’t completely understand what’s happening in the brain, but one theory is that the stress hormone cortisol may be continuously activating the “fight-flight-freeze” response while reducing overall brain functioning, leading to a number of negative symptoms.

A major challenge of coping with PTSD is sensitivity to triggers, physical and emotional stimuli that the brain associates with the original trauma.

There’s still much research to be done in understanding emotional expression, particularly as we learn more about the inner workings of the brain.

So here's a small visual animation, as if the two sides of the brain are sort of clashing against each other to kind of make sense of the duality and the tension.

Someone could give a talk and say, look at us, we've got these really sharp teeth and muscles and a brain that's really good at throwing weapons, and if you look at lots of societies around the world, you'll see very high rates of violence.

In about 1997, about 15 years back, there were a group of scientists that were trying to understand how the brain processes language, and they found something very interesting.

But if you think about the brain, the thoughts that we have in our heads are not one-dimensional.

Now, it seems to me that language is really the brain's invention to convert this rich, multi-dimensional thought on one hand into speech on the other hand.

I'm very pleased to be here today to talk to you all about how we might repair the damaged brain, and I'm particularly excited by this field, because as a neurologist myself, I believe that this offers one of the great ways that we might be able to offer hope for patients who today live with devastating and yet untreatable diseases of the brain.

And collectively these brain disorders represent one of the major public health threats of our time.

At any one time, there are 35 million people today living with one of these brain diseases, and the annual cost globally is 700 billion dollars.

Now in order to consider this, I first need to give you a crash course in how the brain works.

Okay? (Laughter) So the brain is terribly simple: it's made up of four cells, and two of them are shown here.

So the scan on your left is an illustration of the brain, and it's a map of the connections of the brain, and superimposed upon which are areas of damage.

And there's hope in this next section, of this brain section of somebody else with M.S., because what it illustrates is, amazingly, the brain can repair itself.

It's amazing and it's occurred because there are stem cells in the brain, even, which can enable new myelin, new insulation, to be laid down over the damaged nerves.

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